Fast Track trade promotion legislation is expected to be introduced in Congress the second week of April. Global corporations are calling in all their chits from massive campaign contributions to both parties in the hope of rushing the bill throug...

Forty-four years ago my mother, Frances Moore Lappé, published “Diet for a Small Planet,” a book that dared to suggest human beings could survive, even thrive, on a plant-centered diet and that doing so would be good for our bod...

Full page ads in the New York Times and Washington Post on Tuesday called on the federal government to advise Americans to cut some meat from their diets.
The ads, sponsored by more than 100 health and environmental groups, come as U.S. policymak...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to regulate novel nanomaterial pesticides as a result of a lawsuit filed by Center for Food Safety in December. In 2008, a coalition of nonprofits led by CFS filed a 116-page ...

More than 100 organizations and experts urge Obama administration to embrace Scientific Report’s recommendations for more plants, less meat
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Hum...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of widespread criticism of the USDA’s recent approval of the first genetically engineered apple, the Food and Drug Administration has deemed the Arctic® apple, owned by synthetic biology company Intre...

On the heels of the introduction of Sen. Murkowski's (R-Alaska) bill last week to crack down on the potential introduction of GMO salmon, Costco is at a crossroads. Will it join its grocery competitors and reject AquaBounty’s GMO salmon, cur...

For centuries, humans have used yeast to make beer and bread. Now, a startup is using it to engineer designer fragrances, cosmetics, pesticides, and biofuels.
This startup is designing yeast to make brand-new scents, flavors
-Buzzfeed 3/18/2015

KFC, the world's largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after McDonald's Corp said it would switch to chicken raised without human antibiotics.
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